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Originally released on a Berkeley indie label in 1991, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was a compilation of Green Day’s early no-frills EP’s 39/Smooth, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours. This plus the group's other early album Kerplunk set the stage for Green Day's 1994 mianstream major label breakthrough Dookie which has sold 7.8 million records in the U.S. to date.

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Coming out of the grass-roots Gilman St. punk scene of the early-1990s Bay Area, Green Day exploded into the mainstream with their third album, 1994's Dookie. The trio's punk energy and pop hooks, influenced by first-generation punks like the Buzzcocks, in turn inspired a huge legion of punk-pop followers. Their energy level flagged a bit following the smash success of Dookie, but the band's enormously successful 2004 Grammy-winning political concept album, American Idiot, proved they were mature artists and far from a one-trick pony.